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Damascus: Israel, US banging drums of war


By Stan Goodenough
August 21, 2007

Syria's official daily newspaper Tishrin charged in an editorial Monday that the United States is pushing Israel towards a war with Syria, and that Israel is readily complying and preparing to carry out such a war.

"The American regime, which prevented Israel from returning to peace talks over the last six years, is pushing it to a military adventure and is encouraging it after last year's defeat at the hands of the national Lebanese resistance [Hizb'allah]," said the paper.

Israel was "an accomplice" in America's "daily killings, tragedies, and war crimes in the region," it continued.

And as for American military aid to the Jewish state, this "comes at a time when it is not only rejecting peace but also threatening and vowing to work around the clock to conduct military maneuvers in preparation of a new war."

It was "no secret that the war statements made by Israel officials against Syria are not pointless but express Israel's true intentions towards Syria."

The editorial, which was reported on prominently on the websites of [The Jerusalem Post](http://www.jpost.com/servlet/Satellite?cid=1187502422175&pagename=JPost% 2FJPArticle%2FShowFull) and Ynetnews, raised tensions again in what has become a guessing game over whether or not Israel will have to fight another war this year.

Recent reports on the likelihood of an Israeli-Syrian war

Syrian General spurring Assad towards war

Syria, Hizb'allah, protest loudly: Make war? Us??

Barak - Issuing gas masks could provoke Syrian attack

IDF - Syria believes Israel will attack

War with Syria?

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